Another failed comparison
Youāll get a dm from Kristian Blummenfelt any second to thank you for defending his honour
Thank god for this thread otherwise he would have had to cry himself to sleep over the disrespect from Mr Weitz
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Orā¦. He lost size and performance due to getting off the gear 
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You donāt get my point and thatās okay. I just donāt like wannabe influencers talking bullshit, thatās all.
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Thereās another XC coach I work with who for some reason takes way too much inspiration from the social media fit-fluencers, instead of looking at actual proven winning coaching and training examples. So Iām not a big fan of people holding these loud vocal types up as examples to follow. BUT at the same time, I donāt mind if 1, people are inspired by them and 2, people ignore the obvious proven paths to success and making it easier for us to beat them on race day!
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40kg? You probably meant lb, and no he didnt even lose 40lb of pure muscle. 4kg probably. You can still be using something, but not perform. From reading, anabolic hormones dont help vo2 max
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Iām just piling on and you missed the point. My son has team records.
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I donāt know how you survive the internet then
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i am sure he will tell you how good it was and there will be plenty of footage based on the full time camera crew he has following him around.
I just watched some of his IMAZ video. I gotta give the guy credit - he was expecting to have a great race, nothing worrisome at all in the leadup, and then on race day everything goes kaput - swam felt super hard for him, bike felt super hard, then he ended up walking most of the run just to avoid a DNF. A lot of folks at this point would just say F the video, Iāll just sum it up as a bad experience and do another video later, but he makes the video, doesnāt make any lame excuses even though heās still unclear as to what went wrong, and you can tell itās really hard on him. Thatās the kinda of content I do appreciate - itās easy to put stuff up when everythingās going your way, but itās really hard and worthy of respect when youāre still doing it when everything falls apart, and you have to get up again for the next one.
Heās not the fastest one out there but I can def respect the grind and the commitment. Most of us are slower versions of him, where we have plenty of unexpected meltdowns that weād rather not talk about.
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Watched the video as well and feel the same. He loves the sport. Heās passionate and heās going to learn a lot more on the way and may look back in these and cringe at points some day. But thatās growth. I respect him putting it all out there on one hand and on the other I see it as a symbol of the modern vanity culture. But if he can get sponsors, ad dollar, coaching gigs, etc. thatās not just vanity but now how many do business. So no shade from me.
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We all have serious issues. Do you really want to know what would happen if we donāt train 10hrs+/week?
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Iām not emotionally invested in the subject, but I get it. Itās one thing when, for example, a 15-year-old junior dreams of being world champion and thinks he/sheās on the path. This translates to I have potential. Itās another thing when a 36-year-old entering the sport says the same. This translates to The current world champions kinda suck.
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Wow, that bike position is really awful. Needs shorter cranks and lower and longer in the front end support. It looks like heās as upright as a road bike position.
Oh agreed, thatās bad.
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Who is he?
As someone else said along in the thread - he seems to have taken the Lionel Sanders video format which Lionel with the help and the production wizardry of @talbotcox perfected a long time ago!
I recall reading an article a while back about how the whole Social Media Influencer thing had run itās course. In fact in the Bike and Outdoor Sport and Rec businesses there were a whole bunch of reasonably high-profile people in the Bike, and Outdoor businesses that were let go from those rolls. In Triathlon we had the likes of Taren Gesell, who went all-in on it, for years essentially walk away from it himself a few years back. I just canāt imagine in the dedicated world of triathlon which is micro-small to begin with that there is any money in it, unless you are fishing at the level of Lionel Sanders or possible That Triathlon Life w/ Eric Lagerstrom and Paula Findlay.
Options for this in just running actually seem to be growing - but running is growing - booming actually. Shoe brands and others in the run space seem to have all kinds of Ambassadors and Influencers. Although, this ca blow up on you as a Brand/Business - as there was the Influencer guy who broke all kinds of rules at the NYC Marathon last year, and was banned from all NYRR Events for the rest of his life. I was so incensed by what he had done,(long story) that I tracked down the CEOās of some of his Sponsors and sent them notes saying - please donāt continue to sponsor this guy, heās flagrantly abusing his welcome at the Races/Events that he goes to!
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Just watched his video and he seems like a really nice and down to earth guy?
Saying he wants to be/will be WC sure may be delusional but not sure itās insulting.. plenty of us as teenagers echoed these thoughts about a million different thingsā¦ and then the sad reality of life slapped us between the eyes.
So maybe he is still just hopelessly ignorant/optimistic but not sure you should be hating on him for this though.
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You know where the money is? Microsoft Excel.
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